Eye behavior, involving varieties of eye-contact, can give subtlemessages which people pick up in their daily life.Warm looks orcold stares tell more than words can. Meeting or failing to meetanother person's eye produce a particular__1__ effect. Whentwo American look searchingly at each other's __2__ eye,emotions are heightened and the relationship becomes closer.However, Americans are careful about where and __3__ whento meet other's eye. In our normal conversation, each eye-contact lasts only a few secondsbefore one or both individuals look away, because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and, afterit happens, can generate a special kind of __4__ human-to-human awareness. For instance, bysimply using his eyes, a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably or uncomfortably; along and steady gaze from a policeman or judge intimidates accursed. In the US proper streetbehavior requires__5__ a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at apasser-by just enough to show that you are being aware __6__ of his presence. If you look toolittle, you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive. Much eye behavior is such subtle that our __7__reaction to it is largely instinctive. Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from oneculture to other. In the __8__ Middle East, it is impolite to look at the other person all the timeduring a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker with an inattentive stare andblinks eyes occasionally__9__ as a sign of interest and attention. In America, eye behaviorfunctions as a kind of conversational traffic signal control the __10__ talking pace and time, and toindicate a change of topic. If you can understand this vital mechanism of interpersonal relations,thebasic American idiom is there.
參考答案及解析:
1. produce—produces。兩個主語meeting和failing to meetanother person's eye 用or連接，謂語動詞通常和最鄰近的主語一致
2. at—into.表示方式的狀語searchingly暗示應(yīng)該是“注視”(lookinto)，而不是一般的“看”(look at)
3. where—how.根據(jù)上下文應(yīng)為eye contact的方式方法問題
4. after—when/if.應(yīng)為條件/假設(shè)狀語從句，而不是時間狀語從句
5. 在accused前加the.形容詞或過去分詞前加定冠詞，表示一類人，此處the accused為“被告”
6. 刪除being.本文談的是一般的情形，不需用正在進(jìn)行時
7. such—so.注意so和such在用法上的差異，so+adj./adv.+that; such+n.+that
8.other—another.常用句法結(jié)構(gòu)為one...another
9. inattentive—attentive.根據(jù)英國文化，禮貌的做法是交談過程中，傾聽對方說法時應(yīng)該用專注的眼神注視說話的人，以表示興趣，禮貌和關(guān)注
10. 在control前加to.不定式to control the talking pace and time和to indicate a change of topic一起作conversational traffic signal定語